Nuclear Hotseat

Navajo Nation's Janene Yazzie, protesting the missing and dead Navajo women, working on uranium mining/contamination issues, and now on the front lines of covid pandemic relief 

• Navajo Nation's Janene Yazzie is a community organizer and human rights advocate who has worked on development and energy issues with indigenous communities across the United States. Among her many positions, she is Sustainable Development Program Coordinator for International Indian Treaty Council and the council’s representative as Co-convenor of the Indigenous Peoples Major Group of the U.N. High-level Political Forum on the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals.  She is also co-founder Sixth World Solutions LLP, Navajo Nation Little Colorado River Watershed Chapters Association.  Janene is currently working on the front lines of the Navajo Nation response to the Covid 19 pandemic, and speaks to the connection between Covid and the decades of her people's exposure to uranium mine radioactive contamination.
  
  Organizations and Social Media Links for Janene Yazzie:
   
  • Facebook and Instagram under her name
  • How to connect with Navajo Nation Covid relief efforts: www.navajohopisolidarity.org 
  • GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/NHFC19Relief
  • Other relief efforts:
    
    • McKinley County Mutual Aid - https://ourindigenouslifeways.org/
    • Kinlani Flagstaff Mutual Aid- http://www.taalahooghan.org/kinlani-flagstaff-mutual-aid/
    • Ke Infoshop- www.keinfoshop.org/donate/
    • Nihi K’é Baa’ - www.venmo.com/code?user_id=2994210512830464113 or https://www.paypal.me/nihikebaa
    • Far Eastern Navajo- https://www.gofundme.com/f/far-east-navajo-covid19-relief
    • International Indian Treaty Council

Ah yeah, sure, THAT's the way to guarantee the safety of the American people: promise the world that the U.S. will threaten to "spend adversaries into oblivion” in a new nuclear arms race. 

• Navajo & Hopi Families COVID-19 Relief aims to help elders and struggling families during coronavirus pandemic -  providing relief for reservation elders and families struggling during the COVID-19 pandemic.
  

 and Hopi Families COVID-19 Relief Fund is providing relief for reservation elders and families struggling during the COVID-19 pandemic. Seventeen-year-old Charlize Branch provided artwork for the group's Facebook page saying, ‘Everyone needs to work together to fight against this disease.” (Drawing/Charlize Branch)

Leaning (Nuclear) Tower of Vogtle: Fairewinds Energy Education's Arnie Gundersen
on the dangers of a sinking nuclear reactor in Georgia

• Arnie Gundersen, Chief Engineer at Fairewinds Energy Education, has more than 45 years of nuclear power engineering experience. He holds a nuclear safety patent, was a licensed reactor operator, and is a former nuclear industry senior vice president. During his nuclear power industry career, Arnie managed and coordinated projects at 70-nuclear power plants in the US.  Here, he goes over the problems at the Vogtle nuclear reactor build in Georgia, where the weight of the unit is already causing it to sink into Georgia's red clay.  Arnie analyzed the data that became the basis for the Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League (BREDL)'s petition to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission called on regulators to revoke the plant’s license for false statements made by its owners, Southern Nuclear Operating Company. Here is the latest Fairewinds blog post by Arnie and Maggie Gundersen about the sinking reactor of Vogtle.Here is the BREDL legal petition and Arnie's expert report for BREDL via the Fairewinds website.Fairewinds' research about safety issues of AP1000 reactor design, the same reactors at Vogtle
• Nancy Burton is Director of Connecticut Coalition Against Millstone (MothballMillstone.org), and she joined us to talk about the implications of the latest Covid cases at Millstone nuclear reactor in Waterford, CT during the current refueling outage.

Would you trust the core of your neighborhood nuclear reactor to a 3-D printing process?  Didn't think so... 

Rachel Maddow has opened the door for us to get Covid/Nuclear information to her - and we need your voices!  Here's the link to her "Send It To Rachel" page:  http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/send-it-rachel

For a direct email to her show:  [email protected]

https://streamable.com/1deu1g - LINK TO VIDEO OF GERMAN NUKE TOWERS BEING DEMOLISHED.

Hanford Nuclear Nightmares - before Covid times - being addressed by
Hanford Challenge Executive Director Tom Carpenter
at January, 2018 Senate hearings.

• Hanford Nuclear and Covid nightmares get explained and exposed by Tom Carpenter, Executive Director of Hanford Challenge, the Washington state watchdog group.  He  is an attorney and worked as the Director of the Nuclear Oversight Campaign for the Government Accountability Project from 1985 to 2007. Previously, Tom founded Cincinnati Alliance for Responsible Energy (CARE) and served on the Cincinnati Mayor’s Environmental Advisory Council. In this interview, he provides background on the current status of the neverending clean-up, how Hanford has become a budgetary football for the current administration, and the impact of Covid19 on the site’s safety.
  

Even John Oliver has had his eye on Hanford. 

• Cleaning Up the Cold War's Nuclear Legacy at Hanford
• Nuclear Power Safety and the COVID-19 Pandemic by Ed Lyman
• U.S. Congress Kept in the Dark about Government Nuclear Negotiations with Saudi Arabia
• Trump's Push to use Global Aid for Nuclear Projects Alarms Development Groups

Libbe HaLevy (Lee-BEE   ha-LAY-vee) is The Nuclear Awareness Expert, an international speaker and author, and producer/host of Nuclear Hotseat, a weekly program on nuclear issues, now in its 9th year. The show is downloaded in 123 countries, syndicated for broadcast nationally by Pacifica, and has more than 460 episodes available on this website, NuclearHotseat.com. Libbe takes the confusion out of understanding complex nuclear issues and empowers people with the best ways they can protect themselves from the ever-present dangers of nuclear radiation. A survivor of the nuclear accident at Three Mile Island from just one mile away, she never wants you to face the kind of nuclear terror that she did. Her book is YES, I GLOW IN THE DARK: One Mile from Three Mile Island to Fukushima and Nuclear Hotseat, available on Amazon.  

Nuclear Baloney - Award-winning investigative journalist Karl Grossman provides history, context, and where even more nuclear bodies are buried - aka the "baloney" - along with Covid19/Nuclear observations.  Interviewed by Nuclear Hotseat's Libbe HaLevy

• Nuclear Baloney - that's what this week's guest calls the lies, manipulation and PR of the nuclear industry - and he does a great job explaining what it is and what he means.  Karl Grossman has done investigative reporting in a variety of media for more than 50 years. He is a full professor of journalism at the State University of New York/College at Old Westbury, where his courses include Investigative Reporting.For 28 years Karl has hosted the nationally-aired TV program Enviro Close-Up, produced by the New York-based video production company EnviroVideo.  He's written and presented TV documentaries including: Three Mile Island Revisited; The Push to Revive Nuclear Power; and Nukes In Space: The Nuclearization and Weaponization of the Heavens. He's also been the chief investigative reporter for Long Island-based WVVH-TV. His documentaries for WVVH have included Renewables Are More Than Ready and Organic Farming: Can It Feed Us?Karl is the author of six books including Cover Up: What You Are Not Supposed to Know About Nuclear Power; Power Crazy; The Wrong Stuff: The Space Program's Nuclear Threat to Our Planet, and Weapons in Space.
• For a free download of the newest edition of Karl Grossman's Cover Up: What You Are Not Supposed to Know About Nuclear Power, CLICK on the title.

Karl Grossman's book Cover Up is available as a free download in PDF form. CLICK ON THE IMAGE to access. 

• The Hidden Nuclear Risk of the Pandemic by Victor Gilinsky and Henry Sokolski. 
• Kings Bay Plowshares webinar:  Disarm and Divest During COVID-19 Saturday, May 9, 12-1 p.m. Eastern time Zoom LINK: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89542826756 Livestream LINK: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSTEGsYwuvPpwjtIufg7gzA?view_as=subscriber The panel will be moderated by Norman Soloman, RootsAction co-founder, author, & political columnist.  Participants include: Medea Benjamin, Code Pink co-founder, author, and global activist   Dr. Cornel West, Harvard Divinity School, author, activist, and social critic   Jeremy Scahill, The Intercept co-founder, investigative journalist, and author
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